Idaho

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Identifikator:: 1795100052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179691

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Idaho

Edition:: [Rev. ed.]

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: VII, 80 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Report on the farmers' costs of production of sugar beets in Idaho for the years of 1921. 1922, and 1923

Collection:: Economics Books

3 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS was 260.5 pounds, or 2.5 pounds per ton in favor of the specified nine States. The table further shows that there were on the average 3.4 more pounds of sugar extracted per ton of sugar beets grown in the area investigated than on all farms in the nine States in which the investigation was made. It may therefore be deduced that 5.9 pounds, or 2.3 per cent, more sugar was extracted per ton of sugar beets in the area covered by the investigation than was extracted, on the average, from all beets grown in the country. This probably makes the cost of producing sugar beets per pound of sugar extracted, as shown in this report, slightly less than it would have been if all sugar-beet farms in the country had been included in the investigation. Table 7, page 22, compares the sugar beets produced in the repre- sentative areas in the various States and in the country as a whole as regards sugar content not extracted. The averages indicate that for the three years the sugar content not extracted was smaller in the representative areas than in the total area planted in beets in the 9 States investigated or in the 17 sugar-beet States. These conditions indicate on the one hand that the costs per ton obtained in this investigation are lower than the average for all farms in the country as a whole because of the greater sugar-beet acreage per farm and the higher yields per acre obtained on the farms included in the investigation. On the other hand it is probable that some of this higher yield is due to more thorough cultivation, to the application of greater quantities of commercial fertilizer and manure, to the use of better-grade land, or to more efficient farm manage- ment; and though the averages for the areas investigated are not identical with the averages reported by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture for all farms growing sugar beets, the farms investigated and the data obtained are representative of the sugar- beet industry of the country. EXPLANATION OF TERMS Direct costs. Direct costs are costs incurred specifically for the crop of sugar beets and directly chargeable thereto. The major items are man labor and horse labor. Of lesser importance are tractor costs and costs of materials such as commercial fertilizer, manure, seed, spray material, water rented or purchased specifically for irrigating the beets, and insurance on the crop. Labor costs include the wages paid for hired labor, wages at the going rates in the community for the farmer and members of his family doing farm work on sugar beets, and the farm market value of the perquisites actually furnished hired labor. The perquisites con- sidered are house, land for garden, coal, wood, vegetables, fruit, milk, butter, eggs, feed for horse or cow, and transportation of laborers and their supplies. Where the hired help was given board and lodging by the farmer, the farmer’s estimate of the value of such accommodation was added as a part of the labor cost. These esti- mates were checked carefully by the agents of the commission and where they were evidently out of line, adjustments were made. The wages allowed the farmer or operator do not include remunera- tion for management or supervision, but merely the equivalent of what would have been paid the laborer had the grower hired the manual labor done.

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